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[The Berners Street hoax.]
by J.A. Atkinson [ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Fine ink and watercolour wash. 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed into image.
A satirical sketch of the Berniers Street hoax of 1810, when Theodore Hook made a bet to make the address the most talked about in London. He sent out out thousands of letters in the name of resident Mrs Tottenham, ordering services and goods, including sweeps and over a dozen pianos, bringing the area to a standstill. He won one guinea.
[Ref: 64319] £450.00
A Bloomer - one that will ''go ahead''.
[n.d., c.1851].
Writing sheets, 4pp. with a coloured lithographic front cover. Cover 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Some creasing, small tear.
A woman woman wearing bloomers races her cart down a street, with her male passenger losing his top hat. A rare satire of the introduction of 'bloomers', loose Turkish-style trousers for women. More comfortable than the stiff pettycoats and long skirts of the period, they came to be seen as symbols of feminist reform. Driving past shop front "The transatlantic express". An early feminist image.
[Ref: 64181] £160.00
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Portraits de Brunswick. Il n'est pass aussi terrible qu'il veut le paraître. Ah! c'est bien lui ... je le reconnois.
à paris chéz Martinet [n.d., 1806].
Coloured etching. 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Slight surface soiling.
A pair of contrasting caricature portraits of Charles William Ferdinand (1735-1806), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a general in the Prussian army. In the first he is depicted as a lion, in uniform with an unsheathed sword, holding the Brunswick Manifesto of 1792, in which he threatened dire consequences if the French royal family were harmed. In the second he is a donkey begging the French cockeral for mercy, referring to the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt on 14 October 1806. Mortally wounded at the battle, the Duke died a month later. BM 1868,0808.7497.
[Ref: 64123] £320.00
[Cook's Ferry?]
Rowlandson Fecit & Sculpt.
Pub.d. May 1 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand.
Etching. Sheet 155 x 245mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A slightly satirical scene of passengers boarding a punted ferry outside a rustic inn. Plate 15 of the 'World in Miniature'. 'Cook's Ferry' is written in ink on the album paper. Grego, pp. 312 & 405.
[Ref: 64351] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Cov: Garden Morning Frolick. Gaillardise du Commun Jardin.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard Publish'd According to Act of Parliam.t. Octr. 9. 1747 Price Six Pence. Sold by C. Moseley Engraver & Printseller in Round Court in ye Strand.
Scarce engraving. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins, notch in bottom edge, stains in top corners, laid on card at margins.
A scene of three drunken revellers in the centre of Covent Garden. In a sedan chair carried by two exhausted chairmen is Betty Careless (c.1704-1739), a brothel-keeper. Seated on the chair's roof is Captain 'Mad' Montague, said to be the brother of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Behind, carrying an artichoke presumably stolen from a street vendor, is Marcellus Laroon III, painter and army officer. Before the chair is Laurence Casey (known as Little Cazey), the personal linkboy of Careless. Henry Fielding, novellist and magistrate at Bow Street, complained that Montague, Laroon and Casey were 'the three most troublesome and difficult to manage of all my Bow Street visitors'. Casey was transported to America in 1750. This state has Moseley's inscription added. BM Satire 2877.
[Ref: 64201] £480.00
"On Board the Great Eastern" No. 2. You aint much better off on deck, for when the ship pitches or rolls, you are apt to lose your stool...
SEM-
London W.H.J. Carter, Printseller, Bookseller &c. 12, Regent Street, Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Printed area 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8"). Publication line indistinct.
A satire on crinolines on luxury passenger ships, with a woman keeling over, to the amusement of the watching men. With a catalogue of crinoline satires available from Carter on the reverse. Brunel's Great Eastern was launched in 1858, but was damaged by an explosion on her maiden voyage. After only a half-dozen years as a passenger ship she was converted to a cable-laying ship, laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866.
[Ref: 64197] £160.00
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[Nine caricatured dwarfs.] No 94.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 425 x 350mm (16¾ x 13¾").
Nine caricatures of dwarfs, arranged three by three, copied from the ''Il Callotto resuscitato, oder, Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet'' by Elias Baeck.
[Ref: 64318] £360.00
Father Christmas - ''Up-to-Date.''
JT [monogram of John Tenniel] Swain sc.
Punch, or the London Charivari. - December 26, 1896.
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8").
Very early motoring image. Father Christmas, dressed in red with a green wreath on his brow, drives a motor vehicle, seated astride a great log.
[Ref: 64185] £140.00
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The Ferry. 7.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles. N.º 69 in St Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 2. Sep. 1784.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 175 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on card.
A group of well-dressed people descend stairs to board a river ferry. Not in BM.
[Ref: 64209] £290.00
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A Fleet Wedding. Between a brisk young Sailor & his Landlady's Daughter at Rederiff. Scarce had the Coach discharg'd it's Trusty Fare, / But gaping Crowds surround th'amorous Pair; / The busy Plyers make a mighty Stir! / And whispering cry d'ye want the Parson Sir?...
J. June sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament; October ye 20th, 1747. Price 6d.
Engraving. Sheet 225 x 310mm (8¾ x 12¼") Trimmed within plate, laid on card at margins.
Two clerics approach a couple alighting from a coach, desperate to perform their marriage. The print implies that the sailor has returned from sea with prize money and the bride's mother is keen to arrange a swift marriage for her daughter. BM Satires 2874.
[Ref: 64200] £320.00
May Fashions, or Hints for a four in Hand Exhibition.
[Charles Williams]
Pub.d May 1st 1813 by the Proprietor of Town Talk.
Coloured etching. 270 x 430mm (10½ x 17"). Some creasing, laid on album paper at sides.
Elaborate coaches drive in procession through Cavendish Square. The first has a roof shaped like a pagoda; the second is driver by eccentric amateur actor Robert ''Romeo'' Coates (1772-1848), who is dressed as Lothario, with three huge feathers in his hat. A huge crowd wave and cheer. A satire of the Four-in-Hand Club and their desire for publicity. BM Satires 12129, with extensive description.
[Ref: 64207] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles James Fox] Pand[e]monium. All these and more cam flocking, but with Looks Downcast and damp [...] Miltons Paradise Lost.
JS [James Sayers] f. plate y.e 4.th.
Published as the Act directs by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street ye 12th January 1784.
Etching, pt 18th century watermark. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Thread margins.
A caricature portrait of Charles James Fox after his dismissal in 1783, surrounded by the heads of his former colleagues. The Milton quote draws comparison with the banishment of Lucifer from Paradise in 'Paradise Lost'. BM Satires 6372.
[Ref: 64124] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles James Fox] The E.O. Table.
[London: Rambler's Magazine, 1783.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
Charles James Fox and Frederick North hold hands while playing E.O. (an early variant of roulette). North says 'This is better that Dealing in Whipcord'. A satire on Pitt's 'Bill for Reform of Abuses in Public Offices', which highlighted the waste of stationery in the Treasury under North, with the bill for whipcord in 1781 being £340. BM Satires 6254.
[Ref: 64196] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Tregears Flights of Humour Nº 21. A Palpable. I Say M.r Cab, Drive to the Old Bailey! [/] The Old Bailey Sir;;; Vy I Dusent Know sich a Place. [/] (Aside) Now wot can he vont at the Old Bailey, I vunder.
London: Published by G.S. Tregear, 96, Cheapside [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Foxing.
A man with an eyeglass gives directions to a cabbie.
[Ref: 64193] £160.00
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The Horticultural Fate Dedicated to the Rainer Family.
[Monogram of 'Paul Pry'] Esq.r. [William Heath]
Pub June 30 1829 by T.McLean 25 Haymarket, Sole Publisher of P.Prys Caricatures.
Rare coloured etching, fine colour. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border, top right corner snipped.
A torrential downpour ruins the Fête of the London Horticultural Society, held at Chiswick on the 27th June, 1829. The Rainers were a family of Tyrolese musicians whose patron, Princess Esterhazy, attended the fête. BM: 15955.
[Ref: 64189] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Sunday July 3. Hungerford Pier During the Hours of Divine Service.
Percy Cruikshank del.
[n.d., 1854.]
Lithograph. Sheet 225 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") Split in binding fold sellotaped as issued.
A satirical scene of crowds rushing to board the excursionist ferries when they should be in church. The outline of Brunel's Hungerford Suspension Bridge can be seen behind. From the series 'Sunday Scenes in London and the Suburbs'. Percy Cruikshank (b.1817, active to 1880) was the son of Isaac Robert Cruikshank.
[Ref: 64352] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
March. or It's An Ill Wind That Blows Nobody Good. By George! This is a Shaver!!
Ego [M. Egerton]. Fecit.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Coloured aquatint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾") Laid on album paper at edges. Small margins.
A man struggles against the wind, losing his top hat, which a ragged sweep boy reaches out to catch. Not in Hickman. See Ref: 62316
[Ref: 64188] £260.00
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The Methodist Taylor caught in Adultery.
Cabbage Sculpt.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, N.º 53 in Fleet Street. Publish'd as the Act Directs, July 21. 1768.
Coloured engraving. 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"), large margins.
The diminutive master of the house is being berated by his wife as the maid leaves by the door. They stand in a garret bedroom surrounded by religious objects, including a poster reading 'Thou shall not commit adultery' and a bible covered in cobwebs. The engraver's name, 'Cabbage', is slang for the offcuts of cloth that tailors expected to keep for their own use. A satire on religious hypocricy. BM Satires 4248.
[Ref: 64179] £320.00
Odds & Ends N.º 17. ''May the Fair sex Stand as Oaks, while the Enimies fall as the Leaves.
W.N.
[London: T. Dawson, c. 1835.]
Lithograph. Printed area 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½") Stitch holes in left edge, pencil-ruled border, some spotting.
A hefty cook beats up the other servants, including a black man.
[Ref: 64357] £130.00
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Odds & Ends N.º 18. How to manage Ale in a Cellar.
[London: T. Dawson, c. 1835.]
Lithograph. Printed area 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¼") Stitch holes in left edge, pencil-ruled border.
The servants get drunk, leaving a tap open.
[Ref: 64358] £130.00
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Odds & Ends N.º 28. ''Le me have ''Venice preserved'' mi man will you? - Don't sell Preserves sir, but you can get em at the Oil shop next door; -
[London: T. Dawson, c. 1835.]
Lithograph. Printed area 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¼") Stitch holes in left edge, some spotting.
An obese man asks for Thomas Otway's play in a bookshop.
[Ref: 64359] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
The Reginacide, or, An attack on the Constitution.
Sketched on the spot by a Page in waiting. Dean & Munday, Lithog.rs.
Published by H. Hilliard, 7 Ball Alley, Lombard S.t. London, 1840.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet. 225 x 340mm (8¾ x 13½"). Slight surface soiling.
The attempted assassination of Victoria by Edward Oxford satirised as a 'Liliputian' scene, with the figures wih large heads and small bodies, and tiny horses. Oxford is firing a pistol at the Queen, as she and albert turn to look in shock.
[Ref: 64298] £190.00
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The Peterloo Medal. Sacred To the Names of those unfortunate Victims of Lawless Power and Spanguinary Magist-racy, who fell in defence of their Rights and Liberties, on the ever memorable and fatal 16.th of August MDCCCXIX, at Machester. Inscribed to those far-fam'd ''Heroes'' the Manchester Yeomanry to perpetua their Gallant Atchievements on that Glorious Day, which crowned them with Immortal renown and never-fading Laurels.!!!
Nemo ad vivm delineavit. Justitia scripsit &c.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Very scarce, ink sketch. Sheet 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9"). Some staining, cockling and laid on album paper.
A pastiche of a military service medal, with an unidentified bespectacled man on one side and a memorial to the victims of the cavalry charge on the other. Satire on the 'Peterloo Massacre' that took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.
[Ref: 64356] £450.00
Smithfield Market. (Death of) This print is pub.d in Commemoration of Smithfield Market & Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor & Corporation of the City of London. With my best wishes to the inhabitance of Copenhagen-fields & Islington. N.B. The highest Police court Clarkenwell!!!
J.L.Marks Long Lane Smithfield [n.d., c.1852].
Coloured etching. Sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear repaired, laid on album paper at edges with a song sheet, 'Exibitions, or John Lumps Ramble to Somerset House'.
A chaotic scene in Smithfield cattle market, with people fighting the bulls stampeding through the crowds. A policeman is being tossed through the air. A satire on the closure of the livestock market after an Act of Parliament called for a new cattle market to be constructed at Copenhagen Fields, Islington. The song sheet, 2 holes at bottom, features Batholomew Fair, with a scene of another cattle market. BM 1927,1126.1.5.12.
[Ref: 64204] £320.00
A Soaker or Real Cat & Dog Day.
M.E. [Egerton] Esq.r del. G. Hunt Sc.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
A man struggles to get his umbrella up in a torrential downpour. Hickman: p. 58.
[Ref: 64187] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway] a Scotch Poney, - commonly called a Galloway.
[James Gillray]
Publish'd June 4th 1803. by H. Humphrey, 27, St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"), watermarked 180*. Tear entering image taped bottom left.
A caricature portrait of Lord Galloway (1736-1806), short, bulky, and ugly, riding a horse. BM Satires 10161.
[Ref: 64222] £390.00
[Nicholas Vansittart] The Minister of Vice, or the Great Go, Parent of all the little Goes.
Marks fec.t
London Pubd. May 15th 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 325mm (8¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper at margins.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Nicolas Vansittart (1766-1851), Baron Bexley, stands between a quaker and a lottery contractor. The quaker questions him about the dichotomy of Vansittart’s religious views and his support for the lottery. BM Satires 13236 with extensive description.
[Ref: 64191] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Taking Water for Vauxhall. Be cautious my Love_don't expose your Leg.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1790
Engraving. 200 x 150 (8 x 6"). Trimmed to plate at top, laid on album paper.
A woman, assisted by two men, gets into a small boat on the north side of the Thames to cross the river to the Vauxhall pleasure gardens. The topography is invented. BM Satires 7801.
[Ref: 64208] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
[Cecil Wray] Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil Chastised.
Annibal Scratch Fecit [Samuel Collings?].
Published April 2nd 1784 by Willm Wells N" 132 Fleet Street.
Rare etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Folds.
Sir Cecil Wray (1734-1805) stands being berated by a Chelsea Pensioner and a maid-servant. Wray contested the Westminster Election of 1784: his platform included proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and to tax maid-servants. BM: 6491.
[Ref: 64177] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
A Yorkshire Mans Coat of Arms.
[Published by Thomas Tegg, n.d. c.1820.] No 111 Cheapside London.
Coloured etching. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Hole in right edge. Repaired tear top left.
An unflattering satire on Yorkshire men: the features of the armorial include a fly, flea, magpie and a hanging gammon, with a rampant jockey on the left. Not in BM.
[Ref: 64178] £420.00
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